At 147 votes he would not have made that 250 vote threshold even if LR had not garnered the most votes. Makes you wonder if the Republicans were at least semi-organized against against such a write in campaign.

I do mean only semi-organized. But there is a county Republican committee and at least nominally a city Republican committee isn't there. Jim Roddey is always touting how he is repopulating the local committee memebership. Theoretically there are 800 committee spots in the city itself. Most spots are vacant I realize, but is it really impossible for them to generate 250 write in votes just via their committee members if needed? That they couldn't or chose not to is curious to me. I mean, I may pick on this Wander character, but this is a party that nominated Harry Frost to represent them not too long ago. I'm missing something.

I was at a Dowd event shortly before the primary. There were a lot of Repugs there, and Dowd made a very specific push to get Republican write in votes. I wonder how many he did get. Any way it makes sense that Luke got the Repug nomination since he seems more aligned with Republican views than any candidate they have nominated for mayor in many years, including Roddy.